The Business of Electronics: A Concise History - Hardcover

Sethi, A. Kumar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137330422 ISBN 13: 9781137330420

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Synopsis

Electronics is an ever-changing field with an entrepreneurial spirit and a rich history, populated by some of the world's most famous companies and personalities. The Business of Electronics details the field's complex ecosystem in all its trials and tribulations. It looks at companies such as Apple, IBM, Samsung, and Nokia, as well as now-extinct companies such as Honeywell Bull (France) and Sinclair Computers (UK) that contributed to technology and business. Sethi shows us how a handful of US companies led the charge in designing equipment that could make millions of small, reliable components; how Nokia started in the timber business; the history of inventors like J.C. Bose, a pioneer in radio communication (who inadvertently made Guglielmo Marconi famous); and why there are numerous companies and creators that never made it or that we have never heard of. This all-encompassing book not only explores the vibrant history of electronics, it uses case studies to examine the companies and people that made history and explain how we ended up where we are today.

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About the Author

Anand Kumar Sethi is Managing Director of Applied Technology Services Pvt. Ltd., a leading Indian business consultancy, and an alumnus of the famous Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, with qualifications in Solid State Electronics. With forty five years of hands-on experience in the global electronics industry, he is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers and a Life Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA).

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137330422
• ISBN 13: 9781137330420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 219